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Scope and Contents

Listen to This: Crown Heights Oral History includes interview audio and summaries created and collected within the context of
a community project undertaken by project director Alex Kelly and Paul J. Robeson
High School interns Treverlyn Dehaarte, Ansie Montilus, Monica Parfait, Quanaisha
Phillips and Floyya Richardson. These interviewers recorded conversations with forty-three
narrators. In addition to the educational experience for the student interns, the
oral histories were conducted as life history and community anthropology interviews.
Topics of discussion include family and parenting, migration, cultural and racial
relations, occupations and business, education and religion, housing and gentrification,
civil unrest and reconciliation, and community activism.

Arrangement

Listen to This: Crown Heights Oral History was kept in the original order, arranged alphabetically by the narrator's last name.